Police look set to launch a massive crackdown on mafia gangs and foreign criminals hiding out in major tourist spots, following the arrest of a Russian mafia boss on Monday.
Hunting those who hurt children As Thailand was downgraded for not doing enough to stop human trafficking, one undercover policeman in the North continues to track down and lock up the child abusers
Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 06.04
The territory of Pol Lt Col Apichart, the officer in charge of the Transnational Crime and Child and Woman Protection Unit of the Royal Thai Police Region 5, covers the eight northern provinces — Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phrae, Nan, Phayao, Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son — but he has also tracked cases to the Thai border towns of Mae Sot in the west